On Valentine’s Day, Ol’ Fashioned Phone Calls Beat Video Chat for Long-Distance Love

There’s a reason Stevie didn’t sing “I Just IM’ed to Say I Love You.”
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Nearly Half of Tweets Originate From Mobile, Says Twitter Engineering Head

Forty-five percent of Twitter’s 230 million tweets per day originate from mobile devices, according to Michael Abbott, Twitter’s VP of engineering.
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Samsung’s ChatON Service Due by September, with iOS and BlackBerry Versions by Year’s End

The first version Samsung’s IM service will support Android and Bada; by year’s end it should work on all major devices.
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Samsung Getting Its Chat On With Siloed IM Service

Following Apple and Research In Motion, Samsung says that it, too, will offer a dedicated messaging service available for Samsung device owners to easily message one another.
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New AT&T Customers to Face Tough Choice on Text Messages

The wireless carrier is doing away with its bundled plans, forcing new customers to either pay $20 a month for unlimited texting or a hefty 20 cents per message. Current customers, however, can keep their bundled plans.
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Microsoft Looks to Mango to Make Windows Phone a Better Communicator

Among the more than 500 new features in the Mango release of Windows Phone are several aimed at making Microsoft smartphones into social butterflies.
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OMG: Royal Wedding Leads to a Bouquet of Text Messages, FWIW

Not only were people flocking to Twitter and Facebook to gab about the marriage of that prince and the English woman, but they were also sending a lot of text messages. Mobilized has just one message, and it applies to anything happening at 2 a.m., and it is this: Do Not Disturb.

Ex-Palm Team Finds Success Offering Free Calling and Texting for iPhone and Android

Pinger struck out with its first idea–a way to make voicemail more like email–but the team appears to have found its niche with its TextFree line of apps which offer free texting and even calling from the iPhone and Android phones. The service also works on devices such as the iPod Touch that don’t normally support calling.

Justin.tv Launches Socialcam Mobile Video-Sharing App

Justin.tv, the live video service, today launched an application called Socialcam to help users share video taken on their iPhone and Android devices.

Video: Ning's Andreessen and Rosenthal Talk About New Social Chat Service Mogwee

Yes, it’s actually called Mogwee, which was the codename for the new mobile social communications service being launched tonight by Ning, the high-profile social networking platform. Part Twitter, part SMS, part Path and any number of such social start-ups, Mogwee actually stands for “more great weekends.” Here is a video with Ning CEO Jason Rosenthal and Chairman Marc Andreessen talking Mogwee.

Indian Start-Up Turns Texts Into Dollars

ReplyBuy Takes Daily Deals to SMS

Live from Facebook's Email Messages Launch